Lawrence Ferlinghetti Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, DOB(Famous Birthday), Family, Wife, Net Worth

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti)

Last Updated: 07 Feb, 2023 | Views: 266

Age: 101

Profession: Poet

Other Profession(s): Painter, Essayist, Social Activist, Publisher

Famous For: Co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Higher Education: Chapel Hill (BA), Columbia University (MA), University of Paris (PhD)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Birth Date, Sign, Religion, Nationality, Hometown

Date of Birth

24 Mar, 1919 (101 Years 10 Months 29 Days)

Birth Country

United States

Birth State/Province

New York

Birth District

Yonkers

Birth Sign

Aries

Nationalities

American

Died on

22 Feb, 2021

Cause of Death

Interstitial Lung Disease

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Early life, Education, Career, Awards, Achievements, Controversy, Unknown Facts

About (Profile/Biography):
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, and died on February 22, 2021. Besides being a poet and painter, he was also a social activist and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), Ferlinghetti's second collection of poems, was translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. He also wrote fiction, plays, art criticism, and film narrations. Ferlinghetti's birthday was declared "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day" in San Francisco when he turned 100 years old in March 2019.
Career:
As a sports writer, he began his journalism career with The Daily Tar Heel and published his first short stories in Carolina Magazine, a magazine that Thomas Wolfe had edited.
A 1947 Columbia University graduate with a thesis on John Ruskin and J. M. W. Turner.
Upon moving to San Francisco in 1951, he founded a lighting company called City Lights with Peter D. Martin in North Beach in 1953.
The Italian artistic, literary movement IMMAGINE&POESIA elected Ferlinghetti to its Honour Committee in 2009.
It was he who initiated the transformation of Jack Kerouac Alley, located adjacent to his store, in 1987.
Awards:
Los Angeles Times' Robert Kirsch Award
ACLU Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award
Literarian Award
Death:
In February 2021, Ferlinghetti died at 101 from interstitial lung disease.
Unknown Trivia:
As a result of Ferlinghetti's publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, he was tried under the First Amendment in 1957, where he was acquitted of charges relating to the publication of an obscene work.